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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The summer school on Analytic Metaphysics and Reality, co-organised by BIAP members Marcelino Botín and Markel Kortabarria together with Marco Portillo, was a great success! Many thanks to UIMP and to all participants! ✨️

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ECAP 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy @ecap12th.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Plenary Lecture at ECAP12 Dialectica Lecture: Sven Rosenkranz (University of Barcelona/ LOGOS @logos-group.bsky.social / BIAP @biap.bsky.social) “On What There Presently Is” #ECAP12

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It was only a matter of time

Epistemic Assholes
Cameron Boult
Synthese (forthcoming)

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In this paper, I develop and defend the concept epistemic assholes. An epistemic asshole is someone who exhibits a distinctive form of epistemic badness characterized not by gross irrationality or hostility to truth, but by a stable, entitled disregard for one’s epistemic relations with others. Drawing on Aaron James’s (2012) account of moral assholes, I examine how people can systematically exploit epistemic cooperation by allowing themselves special advantages—such as “freedom from inquiry”, “doxastic comfort”, and “freedom to criticize”—while remaining insulated from criticism by an entrenched sense of entitlement. The resulting view, the Relational Approach to Epistemic Assholes (REA), explains why epistemic assholes are not epistemically the worst, yet are nonetheless deeply galling. After motivating the need for this concept, I show how REA captures both “impure” cases (involving both epistemic and moral assholery) and “pure” epistemic assholes, whose objectionable conduct is driven by epistemic aims themselves. I further explore connections between epistemic assholes and epistemic vice, and the causal role that epistemic assholery can play in active ignorance and epistemic exploitation. Through this latter connection, I argue that epistemic assholes play an insidious causal role in sustaining objectionable social power dynamics. The concept of epistemic assholes provides a valuable lens for understanding and calling out important but often-hidden hazards in our social epistemic environment.

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Marco Portillo @marcoportillo.com · 19/08/2026

🟦🟥🟨 Nuestro curso de introducción a la Metafísica Analítica (MAR) fue un éxito. Muchas gracias al alumnado tan comprometido y a todo el equipo de la UIMP Santander por facilitarnos llevar la filosofía analítica al gran público. Ha sido una semana fantástica, ¡volveremos!

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🟢 METIS seminar #27: 🗓️ On May 19 @marcoportillo.com (UNED & Milan University) will talk about: “Organizational Branching Time” 🕚 11:30-13:30 | 📍 Paseo Senda Rey 7, Edificio de Humanidades, Room B 💻 Attend online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

How can physical matter undergo conscious experience? 🧠💭 BIAP members Markel Kortabarria and Marcelino Botín discuss how physicalists about the mind should draw on the metaphysical notion of grounding in their latest Open Philosophy Blog entry! 💡 🔗 openphilosophy.blog/two-ground-r...

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Two Grounding Recipes for the New Physicalist

This is a post by Marcelino Botín (University of Barcelona) and Markel Kortabarria (University of Barcelona) Consciousness is a rare beast. It is the aspect of reality with which we are most intima…

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🤔 Can the label 'autistic' be “reclaimed” if it was never a slur? How does that work? 💡Marta Jorba, Bianca Cepollaro, and Valentina Petrolini explore this question in the latest entry for our Open Philosophy Blog! 🔗 openphilosophy.blog/reclaiming-t...

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Reclaiming the Label ‘Autistic’

Designed by Freepik This is a post by Bianca Cepollaro (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University), Marta Jorba (Pompeu Fabra University), Valentina Petrolini (University of Bologna). The word ‘autistic’…

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Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Check this out! Summer course on analytic metaphysics in Santander coming up

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Clarification: May 4 (today!) is the deadline for the scholarship application. Course applications have no deadline as of now. Feel free to share if you know anyone who might be interested!

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

📢 Summer course: Metafísica Analítica y Realidad ☀️ 📚️ 📅 Apply by May 4, August 10–14, 2026 📍 Santander, UIMP 👩‍🏫Taught by Marcelino Botín, Markel Kortabarria, Marco Portillo ⚠️ Scholarships available! 🧠 ⏳️ 👥 Consciousness, time, social ontology, and more! 🔗 t.ly/chTbE

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Marco Portillo @marcoportillo.com · 01/05/2026

¡Disponible hasta el 4 de mayo la solicitud de becas para nuestro "Taller de introducción a la filosofía analítica contemporánea" este verano en la UIMP, Santander! 👉 Becas: www.uimp.es/actividades-... 👉 Nuestro curso: www.uimp.es/agenda-link....

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Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Apparently we're hiring another two-year postdoc, for Aaron Cotnoir's Unity Project. AOS in Metaphysics, Social Ontology, or Formal Ontology. Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA671/r... #philsky

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Research Fellow - AR3263 at University of St Andrews

Discover Research Fellow - AR3263 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Exciting news at BIAP! 🚨 Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA/UB) is officially our new Director! 🎉 We look forward to this new chapter in the life of BIAP 🚀 We are also very thankful to our outgoing director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB), for her work over the past years👏 @ub.edu

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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📢 This Friday a new session of #VLCColloquium! 🔗More info: vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/aida-r...

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Centre for Philosophy of Time @cptmilano.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🌀 Geneva Linguistics & Metaphysics of Time Workshop An exciting event bringing together leading specialists at the intersection of linguistics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of time. ⌛ 13-14 March 2026 Organizers: Fabrice Correia & Giovanni Merlo More details: goo.su/zgagZp9

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

So cool seeing Kane take his little project to this level. It’s wild seeing this internet horror phenomenon grow into something so public and widely recognized. I really hope he gets to fully bring his dreadly liminal nightmare to life. I’m so hyped for it.

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

👋 The BIAP workshop “Lies, Fiction, and Manipulation in Propaganda” took place last week! Thanks to all the participants for their insightful talks, to the organizers for their incredible work behind the scenes, and to everyone who attended and contributed to such engaging discussions. 👇📸

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Centre for Philosophy of Time @cptmilano.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

📣 AMAMI is now accepting membership applications! By joining AMAMI, you will become part of a thriving community of Italian-speaking scholars working in analytic metaphysics across the globe. ➡️ www.amami-philo.com

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AMAMI - AMAMI

AMAMI Associazione di Metafisica Analitica nel Mondo Italofono Association of Analytic Metaphysics in the Italian-Speaking World The Association of Analytic Metaphysics in the Italian-Speaking World (...

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The second response retains psychophysical essence-mediation but invokes a distinction between deep and superficial essence to argue that, contrary to introspective apparences, phenomenal properties do not have purely phenomenal essences.

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We argue that g-physicalists can offer two responses. The first denies that the psychophysical grounding relation is essence-mediated and instead appeals to psychophysical grounding laws. We show that, despite its apparent proximity to dualism, this view is more defensible than critics assume.

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We take issue with a recent argument against grounding physicalism according to which the widely held view that grounding relations are essence-mediated is incompatible with the claim that the essence of phenomenal properties is revealed to us in introspection as being purely phenomenal.

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Pilar Lopez-Cantero @lopezcantero.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Filosofía en español: Hoy escribo sobre chatbots post-ruptura en El Salto.

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

👋Exciting news! Our Director, Genoveva Martí (ICREA/UB @logos-group.bsky.social), has been awarded the ‘Distinción a una trayectoria’ by the Society for Women in (Analytic) Philosophy Spain (SWIP(A)). Huge congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! 👏💫

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METIS research group @metisuned.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🔥Segunda sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alejandro Di Rienzo (@dirienzo.bsky.social)(USC) presenta “Mereología musical”, con comentario a cargo de Ramon Carnota (UNED). Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...

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BIAP – Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy @biap.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

👋 Call for Abstracts! The Taller d'Investigació en Filosofia will take place in València, 7–8 May 2026. 📢 The call for abstracts is now open! 🗓️ Deadline: December 14th Don’t miss this great opportunity to present your research work! 👇👇

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Taller d'investigació en filosofia a la Universitat de València, 7-8 de maig de 2026.

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The best week of the year and official celebration of my viva begins today

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Raven, M. (2004). What physicalism could be Advances a grounding-based formulation of physicalism that exploits a distinction between circumstantial and acricumstantial facts, and examines how this approach might address the problem of whether grounding facts are physical or non-physical

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Honestly, I wondered about this, but since it’s a review for which I already asked an extension and I’m now quite free, I’ve already drafted a response based on the content. Besides, some claims made were interesting. But I will obviously let the editors know of my suspicion

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The presence of nonexistent references in a paper I’m reviewing makes me suspect that AI may have been used

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

University of Barcelona, you better pay me soon. I need to get my hands on that Silent Hill F

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

the worse the shared draft the better the friend

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You just know people are going to be googling that obscure metal band

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I forgot to show here the incredible tshirt my friends designed me as a gift for my successful viva

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Szanto, T. (2018). In hate we trust: the collectivization and habitualization of hatred Argues that hatred is an enduring affective–intentional attitude with an indeterminate focus that collectivizes its target, and that haters derive extreme affective power from commitment to the attitude itself

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Thomas Szanto, In hate we trust: The collectivization and habitualization of hatred - PhilPapers

In the face of longstanding philosophical debates on the nature of hatred and an ever-growing interest in the underlying social-psychological function of group-directed or genocidal hatred, the peculi...

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Ichino, A. (forthcoming). The imagination view of conspiracy theories. Discusses imagination views of conspiracy theories, according to which attitudes toward conspiracies involve imagining rather than belief, and considers their normative implications in light of a non-irrationality objection

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Anna Ichino (University of Antwerp) - PhilPeople

Anna Ichino is a post-doctoral fellow at University of Antwerp, Department of Philosophy. They are interested in Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Cognitive Scien...

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Passinsky, A. (2025). Social construction and meta-ground. Presents two problem cases for grounding views of social construction and advances a novel metagrounding view: a fact is s-constructed iff its meta-grounds include suitable connective social facts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Social construction and meta‐ground

The notion of social construction plays an important role in many areas of social philosophy, including the philosophy of gender and sex, the philosophy of race, and the philosophy of disability. Yet....

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Oberle, T. (2025). Grounding panentheism. Provides and defends a grounding formulation of panentheism i.e. the view that the cosmos is in God, but God is more than the cosmos, through a strong generative grounding relation and a principle of ontological overlap philpapers.org/rec/OBEGPM

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Thomas Oberle, Grounding Panentheism - PhilPapers

Panentheists advocate for a unique and rival view of God and his relationship to the cosmos. A common panentheistic slogan says the cosmos is in God, but God is more than ...

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Baron, S. & Miller, K. (2018). An introduction to the philosophy of time. Was about *time* I brushed up on this stuff. Clear, accessible, and engaging overview of contemporary philosophy of time. Thorough in scope, though a bit thin on certain lines (like B-theories) philpapers.org/rec/BARAIT-29

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Markel Kortabarria @mkortabarria.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

New academic year, new lecture thread! 🎓📚 As always, pinning it on my profile for easy tracking.

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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🗣️XXIII Taller d’Investigació en Filosofia (TIF) – Philosophy Graduate Conference. 🗓07-08 May 2026 📌Universitat de València, València, Spain. ⌛your abstract before 14 December! 👉Additional info: tallinfil.wordpress.com

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Taller d'investigació en filosofia a la Universitat de València, 7-8 de maig de 2026.

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